Apple has been known to bring industry-changing products to market, such as the original iPod and iPhone. When it introduced the Apple Card in 2019, it made complete sense considering the retail eco-system that surrounds it. A further push into a vast services portfolio gave consumers another reason to consider sticking to the walled garden

Source: Hot Hardware – Why Apple Is Reportedly Kicking Credit Card Partner Goldman Sachs To The Curb

NVIDIA and Amazon Web Services officially announced an expansion of their existing partnership in supercomputing infrastructure, and services and software for generative AI at this year’s AWS re:Invent. According to the two companies this collaboration will “bring together the best of NVIDIA and AWS technologies that are ideal for training

Source: Hot Hardware – Amazon And NVIDIA Team Up To Build The First Cloud AI Supercomputer With Grace Hopper

Don’t kick yourself if you missed out on the barrage of Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals, because let’s face it, singular day events are a mirage. We’re in the middle of an entire holiday season of sales. To prove it, one of the best gaming desktop PC deals around is a suddenly affordable MSI machine that’s the cheapest we’ve ever seen

Source: Hot Hardware – Score An MSI GeForce RTX 4060 Gaming PC For Just 9 With These Killer Desktop Deals

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured an awe-inspiring image of a Herbig-Haro object in the northern constellation of Perseus. Herbig-Haro objects are luminous patches of nebulosity associated with protostars and form when stellar winds or hot gas ejected by a newborn star collide with the gas and dust around it at high speeds.

Herbig-Haro

Source: Hot Hardware – JWST Spots A Starry Space Object In Amazing Detail And It’s Jaw-Dropping

Ugly holiday sweaters have become a clothing trend over the past decade, and Microsoft has been getting into the oddball holiday spirit for the last several years with its own funky line of themed-attired. Its past ugly sweater offerings have included designs based on the Windows logo, MS Paint, Clippy, Minesweeper, and Windows XP. For this

Source: Hot Hardware – Microsoft’s Ugly Windows XP Sweater Is Selling Out Fast, Here Are Some Alternatives

In AMD’s mobile processor naming scheme, the first digit tells you what year the chip came out, and the third digit tells you what CPU core IP it implements. The Ryzen 7040 series came out this year and had Zen 4 CPU cores, so it follows that the Ryzen 8040 series will come out next year with, yes, Zen 4 CPU cores. That expectation has been

Source: Hot Hardware – AMD Ryzen 8000 Zen 4 Hawk Point APU Benchmark Sighting Teases Specs And Performance

Whether it’s a skin in League of Legends, keys for Counter-Strike lockboxes, or some energy to continue playing Candy Crush, it’s extremely likely that you’ve bought a microtransaction at least once. Imagine if you paid out for some in-game currency and the game operator shut down the title a couple of months or even weeks later? You’d expect

Source: Hot Hardware – Take-Two Lawsuit Drives To Dunk On NBA 2K Publisher Over Microtransaction Theft

Geekom has unveiled a new highly compact Mini-PC sporting AMD’s latest high-performance Ryzen 7000 mobile CPUs. The system measures just 112.4mm in width and length, and 37mm in height, and comes with a 40GBps USB port and SD card reader, making it a highly capable mini-PC suitable for mainstream consumers and even content creators. The new

Source: Hot Hardware – Geekom’s Mini PC Powered By AMD Phoenix Breaks Cover With A Slick Metal Design

When Albert Einstein predicted through special relativity that the speed of light was constant, he ignored one crucial factor. The speed of AI development seems to be the only thing going faster than the speed of light itself, as of late. This law of constant motion results in a new reality that GPUs, which are very capable AI accelerators

Source: Hot Hardware – China Circumvents GPU Ban, Now Stripping GeForce RTX 3090 Cards As AI Race Heats Up

The developer of Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore, Gellyberry Studios, has been hit by a ransomware attack, leading to the loss of 17,000 player accounts, the studio announced on their Discord server. The game is described as “a hardcore old-school MMORPG for players not afraid of challenge, risk, and adventure. Band together with fellow players and

Source: Hot Hardware – Ransomware Gang Takes Down MMORPG On Steam Destroying Player Accounts

Sports Illustrated has responded to claims that it published articles written by AI. The iconic sports publication places the blame at the feet of the contractor and has since removed the alleged content.

The illustrious sports magazine came under fire following an article by Futurism suggesting that at least one of its writers was not

Source: Hot Hardware – Sports Illustrated Responds To Report It Published Articles By Fake AI Writers

In less than 72 hours from now, Google will start deleting Google accounts that have been deemed inactive. If you want to save your content, there are some things you can do to ensure that your account and associated content is not caught in the snare of the accounts purge. However, the clock is ticking, so you best jump straight to it after

Source: Hot Hardware – Google Will Begin Purging Gmail And Photos Accounts In 3 Days, How To Take Action

Is a sluggish internet connection slowing you down and putting you in a bad mood for the holiday? If you’ve gone through the usual troubleshooting steps and determined that your crusty-old wireless router is to blame, then cheer up because there are a bunch of deals on fast models to turn that ‘Bah humbug!’ into Buddy the Elf-level enthusiasm.

To

Source: Hot Hardware – Boost Your Home Network With HOT Holiday Deals On Wi-Fi Routers Up To Half Off

Bethesda is defending Starfield, its latest role-playing game 25 years in the making, from negative comments on the game’s Steam page. Starfield is currently on sale, bringing in a new batch of gamers with opinions that Bethesda feels they need to respond to. As of this article going live, the game has an overall review sentiment of “Mixed”

Source: Hot Hardware – Bethesda Fires Back At Starfield Complaints On Steam As Game Goes On Sale

NASA delivered a teaspoon size sample of the asteroid Bennu to be studied in the labs at the Natural History Museum in London. NASA describes the 500-meter (0.3 miles) wide asteroid as being the most dangerous rock in the solar system because it has a chance of hitting Earth within the next 300 years.

Scientists at the Natural History Museum

Source: Hot Hardware – NASA Sends A Teaspoon Of The Most Dangerous Rock In The Solar System To The UK

The holiday season is upon us, which means a barrage of sales on services and products as people find themselves in the gift-giving mood. It’s also a time for feasting, and not just on turkey and ham—like nasty little cockroaches and termites, scammers come out of the woodwork during the holiday season in hopes of feasting on victims who are

Source: Hot Hardware – Warn Your Loved Ones Not To Fall For These Trending Holiday Email Scams

Alright, here’s the scenario: you, a friend, or a family member want to move their gaming experience from console to PC, but you’re looking at popular builds and balking at the prices. Who has $200 for a CPU cooler or $35 apiece for ARGB fans? Well good news: that stuff is for enthusiasts, and isn’t necessarily required to build a baller gaming

Source: Hot Hardware – Build An Affordable 1440p Gaming PC For Under 00 With These Cyber Monday Deals

Today we’ve discovered a pretty big leak that, if accurate, reveals most of the pertinent details about AMD’s first Socket AM5 “APUs”, or desktop processors with powerful integrated graphics. We don’t have any way to verify the content of the leak so take this with however many grains of salt that you wish, but the information looks perfectly

Source: Hot Hardware – AMD Ryzen 8000G AM5 Desktop APU Lineup Specs And Release Details Break Cover

General Electric is primarily known for its spinning things, like washing machines, supersonic engines, or the GAU-8/A Avenger 30mm seven-barrel cannon mounted on the A-10 Warthog and CIWS weapon system. All goofs aside, GE is quite a broad company with connections in nearly every sector of the economy. Therefore, it is not surprising but

Source: Hot Hardware – General Electric Confirms It’s Investigating Claims Of A Shocking Data Breach

The Oakland Sherriff’s Office in Michigan is warning parents about the NameDrop feature of Apple’s iPhones. This feature is found on the smartphone maker’s latest iOS release, iOS 17. Apple says that “NameDrop allows users to easily share contact information by simply bringing their iPhones together, or by bringing an iPhone and Apple Watch

Source: Hot Hardware – Police Issue Strong Warning To Parents About A Controversial New iPhone Feature